Pistol-caliber rifles and carbines have been around as long as metallic cartridges have existed. The number 1 solution is called to “fix it.”. The new production Marlin 1895CB is just as good as any Marlins produced in decades. Went back to store for replacement within a week due to issues with feeding and cycling. from a 24" barrel. And CCI has a 22 Plinkster special edition ‘Stangers’ with a “22” head stamp instead of the usual “C”…. And was a butt-stock pad necessary? 1, probably the strongest action ever created for a hunting rifle. Tops. According to Marlin Firearms, the 1895 Guide Gun in stainless steel (also available in blued steel) is a hybrid of the Model 336 series lever action with slight updates made to accommodate the 45-70 cartridge. The blued finish is even and well done for a working gun. It works perfectly, but does spoil a bit of the aesthetic of the receiver. I talked to both of them about the custom shop Marlins. The American black walnut stock has a straight grip, a hard rubber butt plate and a blue steel forend cap. Clearly this dog wanted to hunt. FRONTIER LEGEND. I’m left-handed. Alaskan bush hunters and their guides needed a shorter rifle that packed a punch, and so many gravitated to the Marlin. I bought a TCR-22 earlier this year and just took my son out to shoot it for the first time a few weeks ago. Most of the post ’48 models of the 1895s I’ve seen, and the majority of the ones currently offered by Marlin, sport the fuller pistol grip style buttstock. There are a few folks now that can color case harden these guns. In this firearm, like the 1895CB, the old workhorse can launch a 320 gr bullet at 1,900 fps, easily surpassing the 3,000 ft/lbs of energy mark, and quite a bit more. In addition to these, I fired 20 rounds of Winchester’s 300gr Super-X commercial cartridge. My old Winchester M94 will also have you feeling like Beatrix Kiddo after training on the unpadded shuri makiwara for Pai Mei. Nobody shoots big bears at long range, but there’s always the chance for a medium-range shot that’s beyond the .45-70’s comfort zone. Made the mistake of washing my car this morning. Action: Lever action, side ejection, solid-top receiver The wood is not bad at all. The straight-grained walnut stocks are well executed with an even fitment around the metal. Sadly, mistakes made after Marlin’s transition to Freedom Group Remington ownership tarnished the reputation of the once sterling brand. The old idea is still valid, and the new things Marlin has done, to my mind, just make the original even better. by Craig Boddington - I put in one of Jim West’s extractors and pondered sending mine to him to convert to a Co Pilot. I had to take the magazine off to get it running again. Many lever action fans, myself included, turned their back on the new “Remlins”. We’ve been in twilight all day. Marlin 1894CB45 Done My Way ... New Reviews; Members. Naturally, I started with the ghost-ring aperture. But as soon as I did I took it to the range. That open receiver housed a round bolt with a corresponding cut for it to travel through the receiver. The trigger pull is superb, and loading and unloading were smooth and easy. Now that Marlin is for sale again, let’s all hope the new owners take those lessons to heart. Too much heat and accuracy can begin to degrade. Appropriately, today’s factory loads focus on field performance and maximum velocity at pressures low enough to be safe for use in Trapdoor Springfields. The first one I handled, I opened the lever and it locked up in the open position, The second felt like It had sand in it and it had machining marks on it. On the other hand, I’m not a bear guide. there was no appreciable difference in point of impact. With the right bullet, the 1895CB is capable of more precision than most would expect. Actual velocity with the 18.5" barrel was a bit faster at 1805 f.p.s. Somewhere not quite to that level are the “strong lever actions.” The example of the “strong lever action” in most manuals is the Marlin 1895, made after the 1948 model 336 changes. Too bad Remingtons declared bankruptcy, I don’t know how to reload and I hope to get more easy-shooting ammo! The 36 then became the 336 we are all now so familiar with. It is a smooth, accurate, handsome, and reliable rifle, deserving of the legendary Marlin brand. There are no reviews yet. Invented and perfected here, it has not received the love overseas that it has had here for generations. Can you get peep sights for the rear sights? I also did one of the first stories on the awesome .338 Marlin Express, using it for both elk and moose. After all, there were less than 100 American Bison free-ranging by the time the first Marlin 1895 was produced. I’ve only shot two loads through it, a 430 “Bear” load that hurts like hell, and a 405 cowboy load that’s a pu&&ycat. The .45-70 load is about the only government I like. This review and those like it are why I visit TTAG daily – Thanks! Great rifles….nothing better for getting into action than slim ratchet gun. Short time later I was taking it home with me. Hours of Operation Monday–Saturday 9:00AM–5:00PM Sunday I have a late 70’s production Marlin 45-70 and after shooting stout 350 gr Hornady handloads in it, the first thing I did was to have a soft recoil pad installed. Let’s put the cards on the table: I love lever-actions, but not equally. I found that a dot of blue Loc-Titeto the screw was necessary to keep it in place, otherwi… A lot of work goes into these guns, and while the outside is one thing, the inside is another. I suppose I should have anticipated as much after remembering back to the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits in Atlanta where several Marlin Custom Shop lever-actions were on display. Notable Members; Current Visitors; Recent Activity; The best group of the five was 0.617", at that large caliber pretty much a ragged hole. Check out Skinner sights. That level of accuracy is all anybody needs from a .45-70—and a whole lot more! I’ve got a stainless in .45-70. I also shot 100 405 grain Rim Rock bullets with various smokeless loadings at low to moderate velocities. Now the gun kicks like a hard push rather than like a sharp jab! The shorter version fits my style and needs better than the rifle versions. Check out this great review of one of the best tracking rifles. Now I can shoot those same heavy loads off the bench when before — it was painful. Very accurate and cycles perfectly. were excellent. Glad to hear the quality is back for the Marlin marque. If the new bosses are getting Marlin back on track, then I may have to give them another look. For all of the things that went wrong, Marlin seems to have gotten back to building guns right, and the quality control to keep it consistent. Quickly finding blood where the pig had stood, we took the line. With aperture sights there’s a compromise to be made. Overall * * * * 1/2 Summary. The big bore beauties have been revived, are as good as they ever were, and the new Marlin 1895CB proves it. JHP; and Garrett’s 400-gr. Both of the guns, the original from June and the replacement were both brand new, with the replacement being manufactured in 2020. The lever is a standard narrow style, and it’s blued. There were Model 1895s, 1894s and 336s, and when I picked one off the rack and worked the action, I knew that this was not my grandad’s Marlin. Problems loading and cycling are the issues I have personally witnessed on several of the new generation Marlin rifles. Ordered me an 1895 CBA last night and can't wait to get it. “Sharp edges on the lever is one of the things I noticed on the Marlin guns”. The ultimate from the factory is probably the Model 1895SBL: stainless and laminate, six-round-capacity tubular magazine, sling swivel studs, oversized finger loop, and a rail mount with post front and ghost-ring rear aperture. Common among the rifles are a right-sided loading gate feeding a tubular magazine (nine rounds for the .357, 10 for the .44), a side-ejecting action, and hammer-block safe… and the modern 1886 brownings and winchesters … both of which are actually stronger than the marlin. It wears standard “buckhorn” irons and seems amazingly accurate, as far as I can see the sights. Whatever Remington got wrong on Marlin before, they have indeed fixed the production issues with these guns. Marlin Model 1895CBA Cowboy Lever Action Rifle - 45-70 Govt, 18.5 The rail mount on the Custom Shop guide gun offered a whole world of alternatives. Especially when you consider that there are no “match loads” for the .45-70. Very disappointed. With an 18.5" barrel the rifle has a 37" overall length, making it quite handy. I would have appreciated a rubber butt pad even more, both for comfort in long strings of shooting as well as the additional length of pull. I’d heard of the problems Marlin had a few years ago but the one I bought is just great. Not anywhere close to any type of evac order. I can find no fault at all with this new 1895CB. There are some loads in an early Lyman Cast Bullet manual, and based on my notes, 12 grains was still subsonic at 1085fps out of a Sharps, and an absolute joy to shoot for plinking in terms of recoil and noise. I also had the opportunity to check out quite a few newer Marlin lever action rifles over the last few months at various Cowboy Action Shooting matches. This extension is attached to the hammer spur by sliding it onto the spur and tightening a tiny set screw with the supplied wrench. Capacity: 9-shot tubular magazine No such failing exists on the new 1895CB. Short, handy and powerful, the guide gun really is excellent for close-range defense and for digging a wounded bear out of a thick alder patch. The CB’s stocks are a natural shade of light brown. I happened to spot a new Marlin 1895 in the gun store the other day and had never handled one so I asked to look at it. After several weeks the gun was shipped back to me, filthy (as in the repair shop didn’t even bother wiping it down and cleaning off the handprints and shop grime from the repair. When you’re ready to hit the trail reach for this open range legend. I wish that I could like the newer Marlin lever rifles, However there were three on the rack at my LGS. All I did was take it apart and polish anything that touched anything else. The rifle kicked itself clear of the sandbags with every shot, but .45-70 recoil is more of a push than a hard rap, so it isn’t difficult to deal with. With the right bullet, such as those by Garret Cartridges, the Marlin 1895CB is well capable of ethically taking any animal on Earth. My intention was to cool and clean between groups, which I did, but I noticed significant vertical stringing within the first few groups. That little Monoflex bullet had gone in one shoulder and out the other, little damage but a very dead pig—just like it had been hit by a .45-70. Too old to run, too young to die. By naming this new rifle the 1895CB (for Cowboy), Marlin is borrowing a bit of mythological nostalgia from its own past, and the reputation of the modern repeater, now legendary for heavy loads in hard country. I have a JM stamped 1895 Century LTD I bought new old stock a few years ago. All lever-actions can be operated in ambidextrous fashion, and you’ve got to love that, but the only lever-actions that are truly bilateral in design are top-eject models, which largely leaves out Browning, Savage, the Winchester 88 and all the side-eject Marlins. Sights: Adjustable Marbles Arms semi-buckhorn rear sight and Marbles front sight post As for the article, nice review! Up close it hits like a freight train, and the Marlin action is strong enough to use either handloads or “specialty loads” that take the old warhorse up into a different power class. Lets start with the hammer. It’s really a piece of art. It’s still on my bucket list to go hunting with it—Chub would like that—but I’m reluctant because I can no longer properly resolve the open sights much beyond 50 yds.—and an optical sight would just look weird on this traditional rifle. This doesn’t have anything to do with the review. Hornady’s 325-gr. I decided to combine these three because they are interconnected with each other. All worked perfectly, but my experience with Marlin lever guns was far from complete. Boken down it’s about the size of a Browning .22 ADT, sneak it in about anywhere. The 1895 requires a solid tug to get the action open, followed by a strong pull to get it back started home again, and there are a couple of little hitches along the way. The old idea is still valid, and the new things Marlin has done, to my mind, just make the original even better. But I realize this rifle is targeted at cowboy action shooters. Silencer Central Announces Direct-to-Consumer Shipping. The Marlin stock is essentially designed for use with open sights, and it was perfect with the supplied ghost-ring aperture. In a tubular-magazine lever-action firing a 144-year-old cartridge I think it’s impressive. The latter offer good bases for the guide gun concept. This time they decided to replace the gun, which was decided by end of July. Directly underneath that barrel is a full-length magazine. Ash all over everything. I haven’t checked out the new pond. No matter what loads you use, the .45-70 Gov’t is not a long-range cartridge and, thus, is not versatile. The basic Marlin rifle is completely disassembled and the internal parts are polished and smoothed. Consider retreat. Although the Marlin 1895 shot a buffalo-killing cartridge, it was never one of the buffalo guns. The problems you describe must be very frustrating. It has an 18 octagon barrel and blued finish. In the morning we saw quite a few pigs, but I gave my wife Donna the first shot, and she shot a really big hog with her 7 mm-08 Rem. Review: Hornady Super Subsonic Hunting Loads, Craig Boddington Opens Virtual Hunters Convention, Power Couple: Wilson Combat Southpaw Protector Series AR In .300 HAM’R, © 2021 National Rifle Association of America. An under barrel magazine tube should be at least as long as it takes to use up the barrel length. Thought it might be an article he would read. The 250-gr. The contrast between your experience, similar to that of many YouTube posters, and that of JWT suggests to me that Marlin is capable of building a proper rifle, but they can’t do it predictably so they hold onto the good ones for when they need a ringer to send off to a gun journalist. Finish: Blued metal surfaces Length: 44 1/2″ I’ve never had any problems except for the front sight hood, I keep ordering replacements and the stupid “clip on” hoods keep blowing off in the tall grass and getting lost. The smallest groups measured just over 1.4″, with a cloverleaf pattern. Lever-actions are a lot different than the Dakota bolt-actions and single-shots produced in Sturgis for decades. I always enjoyed shooting a friend’s 1895, and treasure my 1990s vintage 1894. This rifle is not your grandfather’s Marlin. Funny you posted that. The Henry I’ve had my eye on onky has a 4 round magazine. Built on the beefy 1895 frame, this one offers a trim-totin’ all-weather package of bead-blasted (not satin) stainless steel and water-resistant-coated birch furniture that’s intended for tight spaces, tough country, easy foot carry, and power on demand when a lesser squirrel gun just doesn’t get the job done. No, it wasn’t Winchester that first came up with the idea, it was a company called Volition Repeating Rifle. In June I bought my first Marlin, .45-70 1895GBL, new. The standard deviation of these rounds varied widely, as a percentage. Yeah, okay, that’s not a huge scope—but it still looks silly resting atop such a classic design. If you need help later I’m sure the TTAG community will respond. For y'all that don't know, it's essentially a CB that's been cut down to guide length. Submit Review. Shown at top is an octagon-barrel model owned by the author’s late friend and firearm industry notable Chub Eastman. That begat the modern Model 1895 in .45-70, which came on the market in 1972. It is a smooth, accurate, handsome, and reliable rifle, deserving of the legendary Marlin brand. Here on California’s Central Coast we’re in the “condor zone,” meaning we have to use lead-free bullets, so I also checked it with Hornady’s 250-gr. Went to the range today and put 70 rounds through the CBA Marlin. CCI has a ‘Troy Landry Special Edition’ .22lr mini-mag with ‘Choot Em!’ on the box : https://www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/cci-mini-mag-high-velocity-troy-landry-special-edition-22lr-plated-lhp-36-grain-300-rounds?a=1786999. I got lucky with that one, but mild pressures, gooey bullet lube, a bore-sealing lead bullet, and long sight radius is always a great combination for rifle accuracy. Availability is limited, so it took some time before I was able to get my hands on one. Marlin 1895 Trapper 45-70 Govt Lever-Action Rifle with Stainless Barrel $1,123.00 $1,099.99; Notify Me When Available; Brand: Marlin; Item Number: 70450; Marlin Dark Series 1895 .45-70 Govt Lever-Action Rifle $1,049.99; Notify Me When Available; Brand: Marlin; Item Number: 70455; Back to top. Using Leupold’s Tactical mount, I clamped a Minox ZA5 2.5-10X onto the rail. the dot starts to subtend to a size that obscures a bit of the target, but I shot multiple 2" groups. The subject of this article is an “ultimate guide gun” from the Marlin Custom Shop, chambered in .45-70 Gov’t and based on a Marlin 1895SBL. It is just too light. Then you handle it, and you are further convinced that this might just be the best stock tracking rifle ever made. I picked the one that looked the largest, waited until it turned broadside, and put the red dot on the center of the shoulder. One cursory look at the new for 2018 Marlin 1895 TSBL Trapper and you immediately know it is as handy a rifle as has ever been made. After all, there were less than 100 American Bison free-ranging by the time the first Marlin 1895 was produced. Stepping up to a more modern loading, the commercial Hornady 325gr FTX LeverEvolution round shot 2.7-inch average groups. Marlin Firearms Forum - The Community for Marlin Owners. The stocks on the CB are a straight grained American black walnut. There was no such issue here. Lever gun aficionados are familiar with the “Marlin red” finish of the wood on the older guns as well as many custom Marlins. The Marlin Custom Shop can install XS Sights’ one-piece steel front post (l.) and ghost-ring aperture rear (ctr. For me, this rifle was just too good to turn back in. Safety: Hammer block safety Yes, all Marlin levers are more narrow, and therefore a little sharper than some other manufacturers’ guns, but this lever has rounded and polished edges, as it should. Just new to us since it was absorbed into the farm.) I only buy the older stamped JM Marlins. (The new pond isn’t new. The original 1895’s finish came color case hardened, but a blued receiver was available from the factory as well at no additional cost. After my buddy and gunwriting colleague Chub Eastman passed, I acquired his Marlin 1895 from his widow, Gloria. For y'all that don't know, it's essentially a CB that's been cut down to guide length. In the 18.5" barrel, actual velocity was 1745 f.p.s. They work. Check out this and other Marlin products online at www.marlinfirearms.com. That was before the Kick-Eez recoil pads came out but what I had installed was similar. Check out this and other Marlin products online at www.marlinfirearms.com. Never had an issue with any lever guns until this point and my Henry in 45 Colt has ran like a champ since I got it in 2016. I have a JM GS that is my brush gun, a GBL that I'm still playing with and now this CBA. I have Marlins with a Happy Trigger kit installed, and some of those guns needed it. Rifleman Q&A: What Is A Magazine Disconnect? I really do. In time I would take the rifle hog hunting, and I intended to use the Aimpoint. The newer Model 1895 is a different design that simply honors the earlier model designation. I prefer round barrels and the older folding rear sight (so I can install a William’s peep). yes it is drilled and tapped see ***** UPC: 026495010362 Description: MAR 1895 CBA 45-70 LVR 18.5 B Brand: Marlin Model: 1895 CBA Type: Rifle: Lever Action Caliber: 45-70 Finish: Blue Action: Lever Action Stock: Walnut, Satin Finish, Straight Grip Sight: FT: Marble's Carbine RR: Adj. The classic lever action rifle has developed a solid following among amateur hunters and professional guides alike. Other than the black powder loads, I never cleaned the gun at all during the review and I never had any issues loading, firing, or ejecting a round. I guess I should note that I was the only person shooting in my division. This Model 1895 Cowboy Action Shooter is chambered for 45/70 and features a 18.5" octagon barrel with deep cut ballard type rifling, 6-shot tubular magazine, adjustable marble semi-buckhorn rear and marble carbine front sight. Get the 48th edition Lyman reloading manual, it has a section specifically on .45-70. I can tell you from personal experience, a lightweight Ruger No 1 (7 lbs naked) loaded and fired at this level takes meat on both ends. I have never understood that, unless the weight is that mportant? At 144 years old, the .45-70 Gov’t cartridge shows no signs of retiring. 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